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Carla Wigen joins the senior leadership team at the Seattle-based firm, which advises on about $5 billion in assets.

Each of the team’s members had 15 years or more experience working at the wirehouse.

This is the third such suit the bank has filed against former advisors in recent months.

The deal with the family-run independent insurance firm followed record sales in fixed-index annuities.

The regional broker-dealer’s head count jumped up to 1,824 in the third quarter.

The firm’s recruiting streak continues with this latest wirehouse hire.

The new hires build on the firm’s recent recruiting successes.

This is the first move of Joseph Chu’s financial career, but it’s not the wirehouse’s first big loss this year.

The new recruits joined from Bernstein where they serviced ultrawealthy families.

Stratos Wealth and other OSJs are offering more types of affiliation and equity deals in a bid to stem a competitive threat.

A total of 155 new advisors have joined Ameriprise in the last two quarters, and they keep coming.

Two wirehouse advisors left the Charlotte branch one Friday afternoon, for separate firms.

To keep pace with its peers, Morgan Stanley is ramping up its online offerings in banking and wealth management.

The wirehouse has been hemorrhaging talent over the last few months.

The new hires include a rare independent-to-employee career move.

The OSJ spans dozens of advisors, and it marks at least the ninth major exit following a change in policies at the No. 1 IBD.

The partners opened their RIA under consultation with a firm founded by former HighTower executives last year.

The move by the multi-generational practice stemmed from LPL’s self-clearing capabilities, one of the advisors says.

Both the regional BD and RIA have benefited from an exodus of wirehouse talent.

Mutual Securities has added five new affiliated practices this year to grow to 26 teams with more than $1.5 billion in AUM on its corporate RIA.